A miner operates an air drill called a stoper or a "wiggle tail" in a gold mine in Gilpin County, Colorado, probably in the 1880s or 1890s. The miner stands on a drill steel wedged between the rock faces of the hanging wall and the foot wall. A...
Comprehensive index created of the 1885 Arapahoe County, Colorado State Census created by The Colorado Genealogical Society. Geographically included in the index is: present Denver, Arapahoe and Adams counties. Information included in the index...
Colorado--Census--19th century.; Denver (Colo.)--Census--19th century.; Arapahoe County (Colo.)--Census--19th century.; Census records.
An alphabetical listing of people who were killed in mining accidents in Colorado from 1884, when state legislation first required mining companies to report their accidents, through 1962.
Mine accidents--Colorado. ; Registers of births, etc.--Colorado. ; Colorado--Vital records.
Exterior view of Lauman and Bonewell Grocers, hardware and miner's supplies store, Cripple Creek, Colorado; prior to incorporation in 1892, Cripple Creek was called Fremont; the grocer is housed in a two- story flat-roof wood frame rectangular...
Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
A miner squats down to operate an air drill called a stoper or a "wiggle tail" in a gold mine in Gilpin County, probably in the 1880s or 1890s. The miner leans against a thick rock wall. Smaller rocks stand in a pile in the dark background. The...
The Gold Miner Hotel in Eldora, Boulder County, Colorado, is a two-story building with a ribbed hipped roof with a dormer and a front porch. The building has boards painted a light color on the front, and logs with chinking on the side; a small log...
Exterior view of the Silverton Miner's Union in Silverton, Colorado, on the southwest corner of 11th and Greene Streets, a two-story brick structure featuring sash windows with semi-circular arches and stone sills around the entire second floor,...
Index to the records of the Rogers and Nash Mortuary Records located in boxes 1-18 and between the years 1873 and 1979. Index is arranged alphabetically by last name and includes: Last and First Name, Date of Event, Type of Records, Box Number,...
Two miners stand near stone cabins (dugouts) built into the side of a hill. The men wear suits and hats. Wooden boards, metal cans, and a wagon are nearby.
A miner, possibly Andy Kincaid, sits and pets a large dog near a pile of timbers in front of a log building, Silver Plume, Clear Creek County, Colorado. The miner wears a worn-out hat, a vest, a pinstripe shirt, long pants, and lace-up boots, and...
Studio portrait of the Trujillo brothers from Mora County, New Mexico, and Las Animas County, Colorado. They are identified as: bottom row, left to right: Celedón Trujillo, Francisco Trujillo, Leopoldo Trujillo, and in the back, Benigno Trujillo....
A group of fourteen miners in work clothes, including overalls, pose near the Pittsburg Mine in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows a dog (with a miner's cap on its head). One miner holds a wrench, another holds a sledge hammer and a...
Central City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Pittsburg Mine (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1900-1910.
A miner uses a compressed air, percussion-type rock drill called a stoper in the Argentine Mine in Rico (Dolores County), Colorado. The miner wears a hat with an attached lamp.
A group of men pose with raised beer glasses near the Miner's Exchange in Rugby (Las Animas County), Colorado. One man wears a white shirt, apron and probably is the storekeeper. A man standing near the door leans a pair of crutches against his...
Interior view of a coal mine owned by the Colorado-Utah Coal Company at Mt. Harris, Colorado; in left foreground, a miner crouches holding a shovel; at right foreground, a miner stands next to a railroad track holding a hatchet; at rear, several...
A miner sits in a tram engine and guides loaded mine ore cars on a tramway at the Gold Hub Mine in San Juan County, Colorado. He wears a hard hat with a miner's light.
Mine railroads--Cars--Colorado--San Juan County--1930-1940.; Gold Hub Mine (San Juan County, Colo.)--1930-1940.; San Juan County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Miners--Colorado--San Juan County--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--San Juan County--1930-1940.
A miner locates ore in a tunnel of the Gold Hub Mine near Silverton (San Juan County), Colorado. He wears a hard hat and a miner's light.
Gold Hub Mine (San Juan County, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Silverton (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Interiors--Colorado--Silverton--1930-1940.; Miners--Colorado--Silverton--1930-1940.; Mining--Colorado--Silverton--1930-1940.; Tunnels--Colorado--Silverton--1930-1940.
A miner poses with a miner's candle by an ore car at the entrance to the Mascot Mine near American City (Gilpin County), Colorado.
Mine railroads--Cars--Colorado--American City--1890-1910.; American City (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Miners--Colorado--American City--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--American City--1890-1910.
Herman, a miner, poses with a miner's candle by an ore car at the entrance to the Mascot Mine near American City (Gilpin County), Colorado.
Mine railroads--Cars--Colorado--American City--1890-1910.; American City (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Mascot Mine (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Miners--Colorado--American City--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--American City--1890-1910.
A miner sits on the ground with his back against the wall in a mine shaft in Central City, Colorado. Another miner, holding a candle, squats across from him. Other miners stand behind the seated pair.
Central City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Miners--Colorado--Central City--1880-1890.
Members of the ladies' glee club in Breckenridge, Colorado, pose at the piano while Agnes Finding Miner plays the upright, sitting on a three legged stool. They wear high collared, puff sleeved blouses in various patterns and long gold chains, and...
Interior view of a miner's shack shows five miners posing, Delmonio mine, Gilpin County, Colorado. The men are in a barrel, on a hoist, and at the hoist controls. A miner's lamp and hatchet hang on the wall.
Delmonio Mine (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Gilpin County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hoisting machinery--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Gilpin County--1900-1910.;...
View of a miner and his pack burro. The miner wears overalls and a coat, and smokes a pipe. The burro is loaded with a bed-roll, shovel, pickaxe, coffee pot, and frying pan.
View looking east on Miner Street, Idaho Springs, Colorado, shows electric street lights hanging over the street, electric utility poles, dirt street, horse and carriage, men and women standing on a corner, and horses in the distance; Queen Anne...
Doyle, timber man, Forrester, miner, Christopher, mechanic and hoist engineer, Baldwin, banker, Irvine, engineer and lawyer, C. H. Bruner, owner and banker, and Ironsmith, miner with mining candle, pose near the shaft house of the Red Spruce Mine...
Mine buildings--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1910.; Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Red Spruce Mine (Boulder County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Miners--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--Boulder County--1890-1910.; Bruner, C. H.
A miner poses in a shaft of the Johnny Bull Mine near Silver Plume, Clear Creek County, Colorado. He holds a small piece of ore and a prospector's pick and wears a hard hat with a miner's light.
Johnny Bull Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Silver Plume (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Miners--Colorado--Silver Plume--1960-1970.; Mining equipment--Colorado--Silver Plume--1960-1970.; Mining--Colorado--Silver Plume--1960-1970.
A miner stands next to a large rock which he is bloc holing with a pneumatic drill in an unidentified mine somewhere in Colorado. The miner wears boots, denim overalls, gloves, and a head lamp.
Panoramic view of well dressed men and a woman, they pose with a miner at the Denver Mine near Silver Plume (Clear Creek County), Colorado. A mine building and miner's cabin are nearby. A sign over the tunnel entrance reads: "Denver Tunnel".
Interior view of a miner's home; includes two men playing cards at table and a miner stretched out on cot; shows wooden framework of house, shelving, wood stove, cooking utensils and gold pan.
Two men pose on the outskirts of Aspen, Colorado. They are dressed in shirts and ties (one wears a vest), trousers, and leather shoes. One man wears a miner's hat with a candle and the other holds a miner's candle holder. An ore cart is in the...
Ice sculpture of miners inside Leadville, Colorado's Ice Palace is a part of the museum exhibits created for the Winter Crystal Carnival. Phillip Kelly froze water with snow to mold figures of miners, then rubbed water over the snow to give the...
Exterior view of B.P.O.E. Elks Lodge at the corner of Columbia and Pine Street, Telluride, Colorado (used for two years by the Western Federation of Miner's under the direction of Local President Vincent St. John and later occupied by the Miner's...
Telluride (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Buildings--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Hospitals--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Telluride--1900-1910.; Miners' Union Hospital (Telluride, Colo.)